Anhlqn and Jessie gave good answer for turn into–it means transform something or someone into something else (the wizard turned the prince into a frog). It can also mean simply turn (the driver turned into the alleyway).
Turn back means force someone to return where they came from (the police turned back traffic from the street where the accident occurred)(the fairy turned the frog back into a prince)

I got 5 correct out of 10. The quiz was really difficult for me. I was confused completely. Perhaps I didn’t understand correctly :( I’ll review your video and try the quiz when I can. Thank you, Adam :)

Friday, January 17th 2014

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Try to watch English/american movies(maybe with subtitles). These type of verbs often use in movies. I recommend comedies.

I would like you write down the definition of all the word because my listening is not good.

Saturday, January 18th 2014

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Hi! Theara,
Here are definitions of phrasal verb ‘TURN’.

*turn on – electricity is on. ex.) I turn on the light. (turnon: interest)
*turn off – elctricity is out. ex.) I turn off the TV. (turnoff: disgust)
*turn up – make a sound or temperature louder. ex.) He turns up the volume.(turnup: discover)
*turn down – make a sound or temperature lower. ex.) She turns down the heat.(turndown: reject)
*turn over – turn opposit side, rotating a cycle.
*turn out – to push outside, to result
*turn around – change
*turn to – approach
*turn in – submit = hand in, to inform on or deliver up, go to sleep.

i can add something. Hopefully these can help you. :)
turn out, of course, means pushing outside but also resulting, usually accidental results.
it has another meaning. it’s like attendance.
turn up, maybe, is somewhat similar to the third meaning of the phrasal turn out. in some cases it’s up to the situation to make a choice between them.

ohhhhhhhh i’ve just got 9/10 because the one thing i didn’t read with care. Now i do regret because i could have got the highest point. I still remember that last time i received 10 points. I am so disappointed about myself as many times i’ve tried to be more careful not only in studying but in life as well. :(

Hi Adam. If I remember a previous lesson, I could say that the knockout I just saw across street turned me up. The problem is while I was looking at her, I bumped into a streetlight, you should see my nose…I now look like a bulldog.

Almost. More specifically, it can refer to sales or revenue. In other words, it refers to how much inventory came in and then went out again, or how many customers came in (to a restaurant for example), were served, and went out to let the next customers in.
You can have a high turnover and low profit, depending on what you’re selling.

Hi I’m an ESL 2 student, and you’re videos are so helpful for me, so I decided to watch one everyday.
I’d like to upload a video about exits letters, because one of my problems that I have a little thick accent with the letter r.

Monday, January 20th 2014

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Hi Ahmad,

I’m not sure what exits letters are. But don’t worry about accent–focus on pronunciation. :)

Hi Adam!
I really like your videos and the way you present them a lot. Thank you for that and all the videos I have watched and am going to watch.

But in this one it is quite upsetting to hear from you things like “a woman in a summer dress turns on men”. It’s not like she wears that for pleasing men’s sight at all, especially in hot summer. It is a big topic with lots of issues but this is not quite a place for an attempt to discuss them. However, anyway that is an example of objectification, barely as awful as that which many women are forced to face in everyday life, but still in the same category. Unfortunately this video kind of encourages men to think that a pretty strange woman is an object to stare at, to comment on, to ask for a date; almost none of them can place themselves to that position and understand what it is like. Some of the commentators above already wrote some disrespectful crap seeing nothing wrong in that.
As I said, and as you probably know, it’s a big topic, and even with that little I wrote, I can only hope that you read it, to say nothing of having any feedback from you.
Good luck.

Monday, January 20th 2014

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Women in summer dress turn men(and some women
also)on. They do it without conscious. Of course
a lot of men get excited. It’s normal if You
not ill.

I appreciate what you wrote, and you’re right. But please keep in mind that We are here to learn a language, and that includes slang, the language you will not be able to avoid if you visit an English speaking country. My aim here is not to moralize but to instruct on the use of the language. I am sure there are many words and expressions that you might find offensive, but that does not take away from the fact that they exist and are used every day.
When i taught international students in Vancouver, I made sure to include one lesson every session on the use of swear words (like f#$k, and so on, because students were using them inappropriately. I taught them these words not so that they can use them, but so that they could keep themselves out of trouble.
Regardless, I apologize if you were offended.

Hi Adam,
Well, first of all, you had not offended me and I don’t think anybody has ever been offended either by your great lessons or by the great teacher you are. :)
Maybe I was overly impassioned since I happened to watch this video shortly after experiencing some unpleasant stuff which was the topic of the original comment. It’s just that the aspect of the video I was complaining about is like a seed, though itself very tiny and unharming, that can be developed in the most straightforward way and become a problem.
I by no means want to interfere with your teaching but your word has so much power that you can not only make people a lot more proficient in English (which in my case is totally true; thank you again!) but also even a bit better persons (though, if I am not mistaken – damn my lame memory -, you have commented some cultural stuff in your videos).
I might be too idealistic but I believe that we deserve to live in a better society and we should improve it.
However, all of said has gone away from language itself. And returning back to that, I have gained only admiration and gratitude for your incredible work besides obvious improvement in English.
In short, you are doing great and I wish you the very best.

I got 9 out of 10. I know it’s nothing unusual but the mistake which I made was very funny for me. :D In the fourth question I read „matters” instead of „mattress” so I wasn’t able to understand it and I tried to guess, /I’m not lucky/.

Hi Adam.Thanks very much for your perfect lessons.
I have a question.
I can’t distinguish between such and so much in this sentence:”This is such tasty ice cream that I shall have another helping.”
Can I use so much instead such?

Thanks very much in advance.

Monday, January 27th 2014

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Hi Freedom,

No, you can’t use ‘so much’ in this sentence. So much is used to show quantity, and taste doesn’t have quantity, it has quality. You can say “This ice cream is so tasty (that) I will have another helping.” In this case you are using ‘so…that’ to show show high quality and result.

Hi Adam!
I didn’t study English for a couple of years. I gave it up because of my work and one more reason that I haven’t find a suitable place of learning English on the Net until I found you and engvid.com. You really turn me on now. Thank you very much of what you have done for free.

In my opinion, Phrasal Verbs is one of the most difficult things to learn in English… There are many and because of that it’s almost impossible to memorize… And even after memorizing it’s not easy to use them properly. I’m always insecure when it comes to use a phrasal verb in a sentence… Anyway, thanks for the lesson, Adam.

Hi Mr. Adam, thank you very much for this amazing lesson. In fact, I used to consider Phrasal Verbs as a big knot, which means a difficult problem that I cannot solve easily. And now,fortunately, I feel that I have to get them by heart, step by step. Thanks again :)

Lovely lesson Adam.
I can watch and watch all your lessons and never get tired. You are so easy to understand but if you really want to use these phrasal verbs in your conversations you need practice a lot.

Hi, Adam. Can you teach me about difference between some phrasal verbs. For example, stand by and pick up. Stand+by comes always together ” Stand by me!” , but there is a word uses some phrasal verbs, for example between ”pick” and ”up”, (like pick him up). I hope you’ll get what I mean and you’ll answer. Thanks.

hello for all, how are you . so i was really excited with that lesson and importand one for me , but untill now i still confusing between some of phrasel verb Adam , and hope to find myself again thank you for support ..

Dear Adam, than you very much for your lesson. You said that ‘turnoff’ is writing like this. But in your test it is like ‘turn-off’ = something that disgusts, makes us lose interest. What is really correct? Thank you for your answer if you will read my comment. Helen.

Hello Adam
Thank you very much about all your great lessons, especially phrasal verb lessons. I can’t remember all the meanings by studying from textbooks. I’ll so excited if you make more lessons about this kind. Thank you again. :D

Hi Adam
AWESOMEEEE MAN!!!!
You always say FAZAL VERBS (phrasal verbs) instead of FRAZAL VERB. Did I head it wrong or there is a tip on it?
Please explain more.
By the way, thanks for your best topic you choose
Regards
HAMID

Hi Adam,
I would like to say thanks a million for your information and I hope to enrich my English language by listing to you ,because I have submitted an interview and my comprehension was not good that is why I’m trying to be better, please can you give us a lecture about the most words and idioms that is used in every interview …thanks in advance for usull support.
Mayada

Thank you so much for your lession
I’m glad to know many phrasal verb of ” Turn”
I make a sentence and I don’t sure about that
Can you help me to correct it?
” I turn up that have a lot of money in my wallet.That’s not of mine”

Hi Adam, can I ask you a question?
to turn up = to discover
An example: The diggers turned up (discovered) a skeleton.
In the video you say: I was reading through the book and an interesting piece of information turned up.
I can’t understand your sentence. Will you help me? Thanks a lot

I’m going over this lesson, you know these amazing phrasal verbs, and I got an idea about what turn in, if you go to bed, comes from. Same way you turn in a rustler to the sheriff, you can turn yoursef to bed. Just an idea. Thanks for your comments. Have a nice day.

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